I have bought and downloaded a ton of Photoshop actions from The Coffeeshop Blog and I finally spent two nights ordering and organizing them too. It had gotten so messy that I never could find the action I wanted to use. Let alone actually remembering which ones I had.

I used the tutorial about how to organize your Photoshop actions from MCPactions. MCP actions also develops really good and useful actions for Photoshop. I use her watermark action and web sharpen action on all my images (both of them are free).

Now I just have to organize and back up my documents and photographs. That might take me a couple of nights too. But it is a necessary exercise because my digital clutter is getting out of hand and since my current system isn’t working anymore I spent forever trying to find things.

So how about you? Is your computer a mess or are you super organized there? And do you have any tips on how to keep the digital clutter at bay?

What system do you use to store and retrieve those hundreds thousands of images we bloggers make? And are you faithful at backing things up? (I’m not I should get better at that!!).

Let’s talk digital clutter conquering and share some tips and tricks. I’d love to hear about how you organize things on our beloved computers.

Oh, goodness, what a timely post! I just started trying to organize my pictures yesterday, and am in the process of sending most of them over to our hard drive. I’m not quite finished yet, but it already feels so much better!

I get overwhelmed by clutter easily, in real life and in my digital life. I have found that keeping up on it daily (ok, every three days is more realistic) helps me. I have five desktop folders: blog, family projects, work, photos, husband (sometimes he will use my laptop for stuff and he likes to leave junk lying around… which is the same in real life too! haha) Also, when I download photos I instantly delete them from my camera and sort them into folders. Then I can go back and edit as needed. As far as the blog, I made one folder for everything on my desktop and then have sub-folders of: main images, social media images, and posts. In the posts folder I have all my posts in separate folders organized by date and title. I actually make a folder for each post and use the date published as the first part of the name. Ex: “04.12.12 How to blah blah blah” That way I can easily find my files, and I know that if there is a folder without a date, then it is unpublished and just has photos thrown in there that need to be dealt with… am I anal or what? Sadly, I have yet to back up anything onto a hard drive. fail.

Hello, thank you for this wonderful idea. I checked out the instructions but I tend to be a little impatient reading things. Terrible I know and I blog. Well, I figured out a way to do it myself when I noticed coffee shop mentioned PowerPoint. I’ve created one for work too. I love it. Thanks for the wonderful idea.